Offshore Drilling=Bad Idea. Let’s Do Something.

The wildly popular Dark Knight ends with a stirring monologue about The Truth, capitol T. I’ve extracted part of it here:

Batman: “Sometimes, truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.”

This got me thinking about the push for Offshore Drilling (yup), and the fact that it is, in every way, predicated on LIES. When Congress comes back in session, we’re confronted with the potential of our elected officials authorizing one of the most myopic and harmful possibly “remedies” to high gas prices. The possibility becomes more likely each day. Even Nancy Pelosi, who had held surprisingly firm on the issue, is weakening her stance.

Batman is right: we do deserve more than just knowing the truth about offshore drilling. Considerable progress has been made in the last two years convincing Americans that renewable energy is preferable to fossil fuels. For the Democratic majority in Congress to let this political wind blow through its sails, and then cave in to the lies about drilling, is pretty disgusting.

Fortunately, there hasn’t yet been a vote about offshore drilling in the House. There’s still time for us to make a lot of noise. We can attend town hall meetings with 1Sky while our Representatives are in district. We can all write Nancy Pelosi and applaud her for standing strong up to this point, and urge her not to give in. We can write letters to the editor using the WE campaign’s template (but with edgier talking points). Let’s get to it. We can handle the truth, but we can handle more than just that.

2 Responses to “Offshore Drilling=Bad Idea. Let’s Do Something.”

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1 Alice Andrus Aug 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am

Hey folks: Join Moveon.org’s Clean Energy Rally on August 19 across the country. Simply go to Moveon.org and put in your zipcode to find a rally near you. We are fighting back against the Republican reshaping of the energy issue and their demand to have Congress vote on drilling in protected waters. Come join us and fight back against this gimmick and tell the American public that they need to support funding alternative Clean Energy initiatives NOW!

Thanks, Alice Andrus
2 Shadia Wood Aug 15th, 2008 at 4:32 am

Wow way to link that up Groovy Boeve. I really enjoyed the post; see you tomorrow night!